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Question 1

Radical Republicans

Answer 1

Republicans who believed that Lincoln’s plan did not adequately punish the South, restructure Southern society, or boost the political prospects of the Republican Party

Question 2

Sir Walter Raleigh

Answer 2

continuing the efforts of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to colonize North America, he named Virginia for England’s queen and chose Roanoke Island, just off the coast of North Carolina, as the site for the first English settlement

Question 3

Rationalism

Answer 3

the belief that human reason was adequate to solve all of mankind’s problems and, correspondingly, much less faith was needed in the central role of God as an active force in the universe

Question 4

Reciprocity Treaty

Answer 4

an 1854 agreement by which President Pierce succeeded in opening Canada to greater U.S. trade

Question 5

Reconstruction

Answer 5

the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War

Question 6

Redemption

Answer 6

the goal of the Southerners not allied with the Reconstruction governments to end those governments

Question 7

Report on Manufactures

Answer 7

first Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton’s proposal of an extensive program for federal stimulation of industrial development, through subsidies and tax incentives, with the money needed to fund these programs coming from an excise tax on distillers and from tariffs on import

Question 8

Report on the Public Credit

Answer 8

first Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton’s proposal of the funding of the national debt at face value, federal assumption of state debts, and the establishment of a national bank

Question 9

Republicans

Answer 9

members of one of the two political parties that emerged after the formation of the U.S. government who were led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and held the view (called the “strict interpretation”) that any action not specifically permitted in the Constitution was thereby prohibited

Question 10

Paul Revere

Answer 10

a dispatch rider who spread the news through the countryside of the movement of General Gage’s troops on their way to destroy a reported stockpile of colonial arms and ammunition in Concord

Question 11

“Review”

Answer 11

a newspaper published by James B.D. DeBow that advocated the commercial development and agricultural diversification of the South to lessen its dependency upon Northern bankers and businessmen

Question 12

Rhode Island

Answer 12

the colony, which granted complete religious toleration, for which Roger Williams received a charter in 1644 to combine Providence, Portsmouth, and other settlements that had sprung up in the Narragansett Bay area

Question 13

Rise of the Railroads

Answer 13

the rapid expansion of railroads in the United States, which rose from less than 3,000 miles of railroad track in 1840 America to more than 30,000 miles by 1860

Question 14

Roanoke Island

Answer 14

an island just off the coast of North Carolina, in 1587, it became the first English settlement in North America but was found deserted by its leader, John White, when he returned in 1590 from England with supplies

Question 15

John Rolfe

Answer 15

a Virginia resident who, in 1612, discovered that a superior strain of tobacco, native to the West Indies, could be grown in Virginia, thereby giving Virginia a major cash crop, as there was a large market for this tobacco in Europe

Question 16

Romanticism

Answer 16

the belief in the innate goodness of man and thus in the possibility of improvement that emphasized emotions and feelings over rationality, on which a movement of reform, beginning in the 1840s, was centered in the Northeast, especially in New England, and also in the South

Question 17

Rush-Bagot Treaty

Answer 17

an 1817 agreement between Britain and the United States to stop maintaining armed fleets on the Great Lakes and the first “disarmament” agreement of the U.S., which is still in effect